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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
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From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.
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many on the right confuse the is of globalization with the ought of simply accepting all its effects. They preach a political quietism that is really just a cloak for greed.
The Three Questions - Prosperity and the Public Good (1998) Ch. One, The Rabbis Three Questions, p. 7 -
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
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Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
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Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
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Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.
Towards A Canada of Light Interlude, p. 75 -
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
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For greed all nature is too little.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
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Greed is all right, by the way. I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
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Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
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I have news for the forces of greed and the defenders of the status quo; your time has come and gone. It's time for change in America.
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If you take away ideology, you are left with a case by case ethics which in practice ends up as me first, me only, and in rampant greed.
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Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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